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© Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.1 billion meth pills: East, Southeast Asia drug industry hits ominous peak
By GRANT PECK BANGKOK©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Ricky Kaminski13
Has to be one of the worst drugs out there. Guaranteed psychosis and tragic decline for any poor bugger that goes for that quick fix. It’s a menace and totally destructive. State sponsored producers are waging a horrid war against the poorest people in many nations. Meth be gone!
Strangerland
Horrible drug, but mostly because of the black-market it's created due to the extremely stupid war on drugs. I don't know why people push for drugs to be illegal, it's like they want black-market organized crime around them.
Sven Asai
It’s amazing, they are the only ones who have better and increased working delivery chains and more supply than before, just the contrary to all normal and legal economies. But that’s all of it. They can consider themselves extremely lucky and thankful that I am not in power or responsibility, because I would extinguish that problem at a guaranteed rate of 100% plus x.
Mark
Public education about the dangers, create jobs and get the unemployed off the streets, Life in prison, or even death penalty in some cases will help putting an end to this rise. China has dealt with this problem buy putting people to work and off the streets so they have a mean to feed their families other than trafficking and selling drugs
Alan Harrison
The police in SE Asian countries are doing an excellent job. Of course Japans police force will co-operate fully with their counter-part and help eliminate this menace.
kurisupisu
If a billion pills
are not getting through then how many are?
South East Asia is notorious for corruption and bribery is endemic.
Laguna
Check out "Faces of Meth" to see how devastating this drug is. Incarceration is not the answer - users have to be educated so they're scared straight. https://www.methproject.org/answers/will-using-meth-change-how-i-look.html#Mug-Shot-Match-Up
Mr Kipling
President Duterte of the Philippines "cured" quite a few dealers and users...permanently.
dagon
The number of methamphetamine tablets seized in East and Southeast Asia exceeded a billion last year for the first time, highlighting the scale of illegal drug production and trafficking in the region and the challenges of fighting it, the U.N. said Monday.
Meth, originally made in Japan and used to get up the gumpton of kamikaze pilots.
Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne
More work needs to be done to stop the production of that aweful drug.
Gaijinjland
Yeah I’m pretty sure President Duterte said he personally shot meth users in the face. Not sure that actually fixes the larger problem.
starpunk
Being a bullying immature thug solves nothing. Duterte is as rotten as these drug pushers himself. His method solves nothing, it never did.
EvilBuddha
If it’s blue meth then we can be sure that Heisenberg is still around.
Robert N
1.008 pills? The bloke who had to count them must have taken a few......
Bob Merlote
Why did this article did not mention China?
It is a major source of precursor chemicals necessary for the production of cocaine, heroin, MDMA and crystal methamphetamine, which are used by many Southeast Asian and Pacific Rim nations.
China produces over 100,000 metric tons of acetic anhydride each year, and imports an additional 20,000 metric tons from the United States and Singapore. Reports indicate that acetic anhydride is diverted from China to morphine and heroin refineries in the Golden Triangle.
China is also a leading exporter of bulk ephedrine and has been a source country for much of the ephedrine and pseudoephedrine imported into Mexico; these precursor chemicals are subsequently used to manufacture methamphetamine destined for the United States. China is developing a significant MDMA production, trafficking, and consumption problem. Although China has taken actions through legislation and regulation of production and exportation of precursor chemicals, extensive action is required to control the illicit diversion and smuggling of precursor chemicals. - Wikipedia
Is it because the UN and/or AP does not want to offend China? Hmmm.......